Well, here I sit at 11 minutes past 2004 wondering what this next year will bring. I have found that it is impossible to predict future events, Nostrodamus notwithstanding. All you can really do is hope that something good will happen and pray that nothing bad will happen. All I can do is hope that I hit the 48 million dollar lottery and pray that I'll live long enough to waste most of it.
As I sit here, I can hear lots of gunfire as the locals celebrate the new year. My first thought was, "what stupidity!" But then I thought back over some of my own past new years and I realize that a little gunfire is fairly mild when compared to some of the utter idiocy I have perpetrated from time to time. For instance, firing a gun in the air cannot compare to the lunacy of attempting to chug a fifth of bourbon. (failed, passed out) Nor does it compare to going into a Mexican bar and challenging the occupants to a brawl. (didn't win) Or the time several of my mentally challenged friends and I decided to swim frrom the Philippines to Thailand. (impossible feat. lucky we didn't drown) So let 'em shoot. It doesn't bother me.
I can't believe that the weather here is better than in most of the country. That doesn't mean it's good. It means that we are slightly less miserable than we would be somewhere else.
If any of you are running AOL IM, my screen name is:
hismajestyed
Does that sound egotistical? I hope so. bye
